The Education Secretary Damian Hinds claimed that all schools would see a small cash increase in their income. He has now been obliged to admit that this is not true. Archaeopteryx, one of the earliest bird-like creatures – so said Dennis Voeten, a palaeontologist at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenoble – was a ‘burst flier’, according to his research – like a pheasant.